"I understand," Liang Dongyan said. "If I can find out, I'll get someone to help you. By the way, why don't you ask Zong Zheng? Don't you have good relations with Han Chen and the people in the hospital? Zong Zheng used to be in the Dongjiang Road, and he has a group of brothers under him. They might be better at finding people than I am."
"Okay," Lu Zhishu said as he walked out.
On the way to the high-speed rail station, Lu Zhishu contacted Zong Zheng again.
Lu Zhishu had been worried about Lu Zhinan before, so Zong Zheng comforted him and told him that he could come to him if he had any problems.
Why didn't he remember it?
…
There was no air conditioning in the dim room.
Shen Pan was woken up by the cold.
Looking around, she saw that the thick curtains were not closed, leaving only a slight gap. The dim light from outside the window shone in through the gap. She could barely make out that she was in a room of a villa.
It was eerily quiet outside. Even though he was inside the house, Chen Pan could still feel the chill of the wind.
The curtains swayed slightly, indicating that there was a draft in the window.
It looked like a place that had not been lived in for a long time. Although Shen Pan was sick and had a dizzy head, she could still smell the dust in the house.
It was the coldest time of the year and there was no air conditioning in the house. Shen Pan could only feel himself shivering.
Fortunately, she was covered with a blanket, otherwise she would have been freezing.
Suddenly, there were muffled footsteps outside the house.
Shen Pan suddenly had an idea and immediately closed his eyes, pretending to be asleep.
The doorknob turned, someone came in, and with a "click", pressed the light switch at the door.
"Don't sleep anymore, wake up and take your medicine."
It was Lu Zhinan's voice.
Shen Pan pretended not to hear and kept his eyes closed.
Lu Zhinan was very impatient. He put the things on the bedside table and pulled up Chen Pan's quilt.
"Don't sleep anymore, get up!"
Seeing that she could no longer pretend, Shen Pan opened her eyes. She was so weak that she barely turned over and sat up with her arms.
Lu Zhinan grabbed the medicine bottle on the cabinet and threw it at Shen Pan, "Take the fever-reducing medicine."
Shen Pan picked up the medicine bottle and looked at the outer packaging. It was an unopened bottle of ibuprofen.
She opened it and drank two pills.
"The water is over there," Lu Zhinan gestured to the bedside table.
Shen Pan took the cup and took a sip.
The room was too cold. When she fell asleep, the cool wind blew through her throat, making it cold and painful. After drinking hot water, she felt much better.
"I'm hungry," Shen Pan said in a hoarse voice.
"Are you still bringing up conditions?" Lu Zhinan snorted.
"I'm your hostage. You can't starve me to death." Shen Pan looked around. The bright lights in the room hurt his eyes. "What time is it now?"
Lu Zhinan did not answer, but smiled. He lifted the hem of his windbreaker and turned to sit on the edge of the bed.
Shen Pan moved in cautiously.
Lu Zhinan's makeup is still exquisite, and the thick eye shadow makes his eyes look even deeper.
He leaned slightly, supported himself with one hand, and looked at Chen Pan leisurely.
"Why are you so stubborn? How nice it would be if you fell in love with me?" As he said that, he leaned forward and stretched out his hand to hold the messy hair on Chen Pan's shoulders.
Under pressure, Shen Pan pushed Lu Zhinan's hand away.
Lu Zhinan was not angry because of Shen Pan's resistance, but instead sneered even more deeply.
"It's twelve o'clock now. It's the middle of the night, and you haven't gone home yet... Tell me... if Lu Zhishu knew that his wife is with me right now, what would he think? How about... let's take a picture together and show it to him?"
Lu Zhinan said as he took out his cell phone and moved towards Shen Pan.
"Go away!" Shen Pan turned over and moved to the other side of the bed, swearing not to let Lu Zhinan get close to him.
Seeing this, Lu Zhinan put away his phone.
He stood by the bed, his eyes filled with cold pity, as if he was staring at a playful little animal.
"Tell me... what can I do for you?" Lu Zhinan looked at Chen Pan, his eyes locked on her. "How can I completely avenge Lu Zhishu and make him regret his whole life? Ideally... I can make him suffer unbearably."
Chen Pan's heart skipped a beat, and she unconsciously hugged the quilt and huddled in the corner of the bed.
"Don't worry," Lu Zhinan put on a kind smile. "I'm not interested in women. I wouldn't even bother going to a place like 'Heaven on Earth'; I find it filthy. Besides... rape is a criminal offense, and this is Dongjiang, so it's not easy to handle. I still have to be the general manager of Jinghang, and I don't want to be blamed for any bloodshed. I have a better way to deal with you."
Shen Pan couldn't think of what it was, but seeing how confident Lu Zhinan looked, he thought it would be a more cruel method.
"Why do you treat me like this? Is it just to deal with Lu Zhishu?"
"What else?"
"You now own everything in the Lu family, and he has no ability to compete with you. Why do you want to kill him?"
"I don't like him, and I don't like his happiness even more," Lu Zhinan's face suddenly became hateful. "Why can he marry the person he loves and live happily? I won't allow it! I want him to be like me, never able to fall in love with anyone, and live in loneliness forever."
"Why?" Chen Pan pinched the quilt, mustered up his courage, and asked tentatively: "Is it because you like Lu Zhishu?"
Lu Zhinan was stunned for a moment, "What nonsense!"
"Other than that, I can't think of any other reason why you dislike him," Shen Pan said, "I'm just guessing. If I'm wrong... I'm sorry."
Lu Zhinan laughed wildly twice, "Your answer is really funny."
"I also hope my answer is funny," Chen Pan raised his eyes and suddenly looked at Lu Zhinan seriously. "You and Lu Zhishu are brothers. Logically, even if you had a dispute over the family business, you shouldn't have been so ruthless after he had no chance of turning things around. I asked you many times, but you never said why. You arrested me and said you didn't want Lu Zhishu to be happy. You sowed discord between us to make me doubt him and leave him. Your various 'seductions' of me were to lure me into cheating and make him leave me. When you were taken to the police station, the only call for help was to Lu Zhishu. You only asked him to rescue you and didn't tell him that I was the one who called the police. You were afraid that if he knew, he would worry about me and make us get closer, right?"
"Nonsense! I just can't stand you guys!"
"Why can't you stand it?" Chen Pan said weakly, "You can't stand the fact that he loves me, cares about me, and protects me because you're jealous, right? What about you? When did you realize that you have such special feelings for Lu Zhishu? Let's get this out in the open and make things clear."
"What do you want to explain? What's there to explain?" Lu Zhinan was furious. He picked up the pillow and threw it on the bed like crazy. "I didn't do that! I'm not! Don't talk nonsense! Don't talk nonsense!"
Shen Pan was frightened by his crazy behavior. He hugged his knees and shrank his body, watching Lu Zhinan run away in fear.
He was angry, very angry, and to the point of losing his mind.
He threw away the pillows on the bed, ripped up the sheets, and smashed all the furnishings and lamps in the room...
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